I THINK MY RABBIT DOE IS GOING TO HAVE BUNS Update, she had more!

[manybirds]

i hand raised some babies using a mixture of goats and kitten milk replacer. at this young age you probably won't get any babies out alive i'm sorry to say (don't give up hope though there's a chance!). babies should have there first at least 2 weeks on mom before there on the bottle or its VERY difficult to get any to live. i once had a doe with a litter die when the litter was only 1 week old. i got 1 of the 7 to live but just barely. its worth a try, i myself would probably just leave them in the nest box and hope for the best but thats just me. one VERY important step is to weigh the babies at every feeding, i used a digital kitchen scale. hold the babies right side up and use a syringe (a bottle will work if u can find it but i could never find a bunny iszed bottle around me). warm it to 100 degree. the first few feedings i did took like 3 hours. within a few days though it only took like 1/2 an hour and that was with 7 hungry flemish giant babies. good luck and i really hope u get some live babies! ( r u positive she dosn't have enough milk? that seems kind of strange, normally they either have enough or none at all. if she dosn't ahve enough now she should build up enough within a few days if she's nursed dry every day)

 

[terri9630]

Why do you think she doesn't have enough milk? I've used goats milk with a q-tip. Just be careful not to get milk on the nose, they can aspirate it.

she can feed 4 of the 8 kits. so I tried to milk her to see if any milk comes out and no milk. also, I try to put the small kits like they said on her and she can feed one, but only one at a time. the small kits can and do feed, but she not giving any milk to the other 3. so I have to feed them one at a time on her.

I don't think you can milk a rabbit. The kits meed to suck and kneed the teet with their front feet to stimulate the release of milk. Kits nurse best on their backs. Try holding the doe over the kits and let them try on their own.

 

[country farm girl]

Hi all! I thought I would let you know that she had 10 KITS on the 3rd!! and all are doing well!!! I did have to bottle feed 2 of them for 3 days but after that she did great!! She was bred to a new buck to see how he would do and the colors are sssoooo cool!! here they are!! http://i1259.photobucket.com/albums/ii547/javachickgirl2/quilts241.jpg

 

[country farm girl]

I did have a few Q's about breeding. Can I breed a half bother to a half sister or a uncle to the niece? Or is it a REALLY BAD THOUGHT? If it is, I don't mind. Its just A REALLY good excuse FOR ME to get a new rabbit!

 

[Somebunny2love]

Cute babies!!!!

 

[therealsilkiechick]

I did have a few Q's about breeding. Can I breed a half bother to a half sister or a uncle to the niece? Or is it a REALLY BAD THOUGHT? If it is, I don't mind. Its just A REALLY good excuse FOR ME to get a new rabbit!

yes, yes. there is nothing wrong with line breeding. long as it is not full brothers and sisters from same 2 parents they can be bred to each other. you can also breed father to daughter and mother to son.

 

[TherapyBunnies]

Nice looking litter. I see black, orange, chocolate & may be blue, wow.

 

[lexibot]

Beautiful rabbits! You probably have a Rex / New Zealand cross if I had to guess... or at least the babies are such